What you do not understand, and Jay assuredly does not understand, is that in the course of my past few replies to him, I have been trying to extricate myself from some large parts of that discussion as gracefully as I can without frankly telling him to get bent.
A simple observation.
Get bent. <- 2 words.
Trying to extricate yourself from large parts of that discussion gracefully? > 2 words.
Just a thought?